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The Brain
Early Stages
Behaviorism
Innatism
Dominant theorists
100
The old-fashioned idea of the location of language in the brain
What is the left hemisphere in right handed people?
100
The Danish researcher who dealt with the early origins of language
Who is Otto Jespersen?
100
The two main methods of behaviorism
What is mimicry and memorisation?
100
The fundamental belief of innatism.
What is the fact that everyone has a language specific module of the mind?
100
The most prominent innatist.
Who is Chomsky?
200
The stuff in the brain that decodes.
What is grey matter?
200
Otto Jespersen's theory that explains repetitive output of rythmic chants.
What is yo-he-ho?
200
The base for behaviourism
What is L1 acquisition?
200
The primary focus of innatist research
What is competence?
200
Chomsky's most significant concept for understanding language acquisition.
What is universal grammar?
300
The stuff in the brain that transmits
What is white matter?
300
The stage from 12 to 18 months in a child's life
What is the holophrastic stage?
300
Behaviourism's motivation
What is feedback on success?
300
Universal Grammar
What is the combination of principles governing all languages?
300
The most dominant theorist on communicative teaching in language acquisition processes
Who is Krashen?
400
The place in the brain modern research has shown that language is located
What is everywhere?
400
The vocabulary amount in the telegraphic speech stage
What is 50?
400
The kind of instruction predominant in behaviourism
What is audiolingual?
400
The creativity of language
What is the ability to produce new sentences that are understood every time we speak?
400
The type of subconcious process that happens when we learn
What is acquisition?
500
The language view that allows for all the brain's resources to be used in the acquisition of a language
What is the broad language view?
500
The consciousness about one's own language use
What is metalinguistic awareness?
500
The type of analysis that behaviourism facilitates
What is contrastive analysis?
500
Comprehensible input
What is input that is understood by the listener?
500
The number of hypothesis that Krashen presented
What is 5?